Monstrous Regiment
core novel 2003 Discworld
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (86,853 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 380 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060013165 |
Synopsis
The small, devoutly religious nation of Borogravia is losing a long war against its neighbors, its economy strained and its army decimated, while its rulers ban ever more everyday things as offenses against the war god Nuggan. Polly Perks, whose brother Paul was conscripted and has stopped writing home, cuts her hair, takes a false name and enlists as a man so she can search for him, since her family's tavern cannot legally pass to a daughter. She is placed in a ragtag new regiment under the inexperienced Lieutenant Blouse and the fearsome veteran Sergeant Jackrum, alongside a mixed group of recruits that includes a vampire, a troll, and an Igor, several of whom, Polly slowly realizes, are hiding secrets of their own.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Discworld (standalone work): position 40 of 56: previous The Wee Free Men (2003) · next A Hat Full of Sky (2004)
Sources
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